House higher education data at the Department of Labor

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Printed page 338 11. Department of Education

“Data collection efforts in higher education should also be improved by housing higher education data at the Department of Labor.”

What has happened

Apr 3, 2026 Not started
The higher education collections stay with the National Center for Education Statistics: the fiscal year 2027 Budget Request funds its Statistics account at $42.2 million precisely to keep running IPEDS and the Common Core of Data.
- U.S. Department of Education, Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Summary
  Primary Executive branch Apr 3, 2026
Nov 18, 2025 Not started
The ED-DOL Postsecondary Education Partnership moves grant administration, not data. Its fact sheet lists the Office of Postsecondary Education competitions Labor will administer - TRIO, GEAR UP, GAANN, Title III - and says nothing about the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System or any other collection.
- ED press release: U.S. Department of Education Announces Six New Agency Partnerships to Break Up Federal Bureaucracy
  Primary Executive branch Nov 18, 2025
- Fact Sheet: ED and DOL Postsecondary Education Partnership
  Primary Executive branch Nov 18, 2025

Research log

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

Research notes

ED continued to run the higher education collections itself throughout the window: IPEDS paperwork notices on 2025-08-15 and 2025-11-13, and the Secretary’s 2025-08-07 direction to NCES to collect universities’ admissions race data.
Negative search: no Federal Register document, interagency agreement fact sheet or ED press release in the window transfers a higher education data collection to the Department of Labor.

Action: transfer
Object: Federal higher education data collection
ID: 853